For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
1 Kings
HistoryIs it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahRejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulNevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesLet me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Job
WisdomAwake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
Matthew
GospelsHe that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Hebrews
General EpistlesThus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAlso in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
Numbers
LawThou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAvoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
Joshua
HistoryFor, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Numbers
LawThe Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.